After a dramatic offseason that saw coaching and conference changes, transfers and several college gymnasts dominating at the Paris Olympics, NCAA gymnastics officially returns Friday. And, just like every season before, 2025 brings countless storylines to watch and more than a few questions.
How will Olympians Jade Carey and Jordan Chiles fare? Will Cecile Canqueteau-Landi — known best as Simone Biles’ longtime coach — be able to turn things around at Georgia? Can LSU repeat? Will Oklahoma find redemption? And what about all of these conference changes?
The season opens Friday night with intriguing meets including Iowa State at No. 2 LSU (7:30 p.m. ET on SEC Network) and Utah State at No. 5 Utah (9 p.m. ET on ESPN+). Several other top-ranked teams compete over the weekend at various invitational meets: No. 4 California, No. 10 UCLA and No. 19 Oregon State headline a competition in Oceanside, California, on Saturday, and No. 1 Oklahoma and No. 17 Auburn are part of an invitational in Nashville, Tennessee, on the same day. No. 12 Denver and No. 13 Michigan conclude the weekend with a must-see dual meet (5 p.m. on ESPN2) on Sunday.
But of course, that’s just the first weekend. The season will get more interesting — and the stakes even higher — as it…
